Issues in Law & Medicine articles from December 1989

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from December 1989

The psychological impact of disability and illness on medical treatment decisionmaking.
December 22, 1989... The Psychological Impact of Disability and Illness on Medical Treatment Decisionmaking As the world goes through remarkably rapid technological and demographic changes against a backdrop of increasingly scarce material resources, the issue...

Does autonomy require informed and specific refusal of life-sustaining medical treatment.
December 22, 1989... Does Autonomy Require Informed and Specific Refusal of Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment? Any social order that prizes individual autonomy is committed to collectively informing its autonomous members. A good working definition of "autonomy"...

Does autonomy require informed and specific refusal of life-sustaining medical treatment?
December 22, 1989... Does Autonomy Require Informed and Specific Refusal of Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment? The title of this article assumes that autonomy is desirable, hardly a controversial assumption in this century and this country. But the question to...

Rationing health care: will it be necessary? Can it be done without age or disability discrimination?
December 22, 1989... Rationing Health Care: Will It Be Necessary? Can It Be Done Without Age or Disability Discrimination? Is Rationing Health Care Necessary? Arguing about the necessity for some form of health care rationing no longer is a very fruitful...

Rationing health care: will it be necessary? Can it be done without age or disability discrimination?
December 22, 1989... Rationing Health Care: Will It Be Necessary? Can It Be Done Without Age or Disability Discrimination? For well over two decades the United States has made a strong effort to contain the rising costs of health care, but to little avail. Those...

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 3d ed.
December 22, 1989... Levine, Carol, ed. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues. 3rd ed. Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. This third edition continues the well-developed purpose of providing students with carefully...

AIDS and the Law: a Guide for the Public.
December 22, 1989... Dalton, Harlon, Scott Burris, and the Yale AIDS Law Project, eds. AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. This book is intended for people who have a professional interest in the legal issues spawned...